March 20, 2008
Final Push
We entered Ohio well after dark having covered the end of Iowa, crossed the mighty Mississippi, pwned Illinois and Indiana, and eaten some jerky.
I’m not even going to write about our experience outside of Columbus on Wednesday night. I’m not sure that I could do justice the folly that surrounded our attempt to secure a hotel room, food, and two beers. I’ll put it this way. We got to the suburb where our hotel was located at 10:00 pm after an extremely long day, hotel reservation in hand… Fast forward to 12:45 am and finally had accomplished our three goals.
Needless to say, we were quite tired when we awoke this morning, readying ourselves for the final push:
please don’t make me drive another day.
Ohio was experiencing plumbing issues, so we hightailed it out of there…
…and into Pennsylvania…
…which welcomed us for about 10 minutes (which is fine with me, because I’ve always had a negative relationship with PA’s roads) and then spit us into West Virginia...
...Which is apparently "Open for business."
Now we've already seen my immense talent for state mottos or slogans, so I feel qualified to note that I don't believe that be much of a motto. "open for business" that seems to me to be kinda needy. The first thing West Virginia tells you when you enter is, "Please Spend Money Here!" But at any rate.
The goal was to make it to Washington DC tonight, with a stop off in Morgantown West Virginia to drop off all of Patrick’s junk. We’re halfway to the goal. We’ve been through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and made to Pat’s brother Steven’s house to unload all of pat’s junk and unhitch the trailer.
We made it to Steve's and unloaded the trailer. Let me be the first to say that if you ever have the opportunity to drive four hours, unload a trailer, and get back in the car for another four hour drive, I highly recommend doing it. But only if you’ve spent the past five days in a car driving 10 hours a day.
Pat and Steve
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And now its off to DC!
Posted by cs at March 20, 2008 7:40 PM